{"id":669,"date":"2007-02-10T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:45:31","slug":"book-log-the-book-that-changed-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; The Book That Changed My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them<\/i> Edited by Roxanne J. Coady &#038; Joy Johannessen<\/p>\n<p>71 essays about life changing books.  Many were interesting, some were funny, some I just skimmed.  Several folks mentioned <i>To Kill A Mockingbird<\/i> and <i>Catcher in the Rye<\/i>.  Amy Bloom cited <i>The Most of P.G. Wodehouse<\/i>, which I dearly love and read again and again, so I shall pick up some of her stuff at some point.<\/p>\n<p>If the internet comes back. Where is it tonight?  Livejournal is working.  Lots of other major sites aren&#8217;t.  Weird.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the <lj user=steakums> Xmas gift books, for which I thank her again, as it helped pass part of the time happily on my 3.5 hour flight back and forth to El Paso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them Edited by Roxanne J. Coady &#038; Joy Johannessen 71 essays about life changing books. Many were interesting, some were funny, some I just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=669\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3448,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}